![Beeing a seakayak, the boat needs sections and hatches. I bought the 20cm round hatches from kayak sport. For the form parts, that carries the hatches, I followed the usual […]](https://www.holzbootsbau.ch/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/img_0146-e1557332930144-620x250.jpg "Frej – Adding the hatches")
Beeing a seakayak, the boat needs sections and hatches. I bought the 20cm round hatches from kayak sport. For the form parts, that carries the hatches, I followed the usual way and created a basic for from extruted styreen (XPS) and the final form in carbon fiber.
The scariest moment is to cut a large hole into the boat. And it went wrong. Not terrible but bad and enoing enogh. Pictures later in the process…
Update 08.05.2019
As mentioned – here are the pictures of my fault and how to avoid them.
I cutted away too much of the material. Not a too big of a problem and I can repair but it is a bit frustrating…
To avoid this, I used a paper template of the form and traced that one to the hull and cutted than UNDERSIZE to avoid this happing again.
if you use a sharp router bit…
Best Regards,
Axel
Scary thing it is to make holes in hull and deck. Have you found my build log (swedish only) of my recent build? For instance this: https://frejbygge.blog.se/besvarliga-luckhal/
Hi Jan – thank you for your suggestion.
Good content 🙂
For me it is always scary to cut a hole into a wooden boat.
Best Regards,
Axel